The proposed MAZ changes have “absolutely nothing to do with”
the 23 acres on Davidson Road that were proposed to be rezoned R-21 back in 2010,
after the county paved Davidson Road, said County Chairman Bill Slaughter at yesterday morning’s Lowndes County Commission Work Session.
County Planner Jason Davenport said he had hoped to get “on the same page with Moody”
before that same evening’s Planning Commission meeting
for the
MAZ ULDC Text Amendments,
but as yet he had nothing to report, and tabling was an option.
I don’t think that word “ultimately” means what he thinks it does.
See more
below about Davidson Road.

The highly controversial
Moody Activity Zoning Districts (MAZ)
are back, despite massive opposition.
The Planning Commission will hear MAZ again Monday evening,
and because there’s only one day from then until the County Commission
can vote on MAZ Tuesday, the County Planner says: Continue reading →

Are all the fracking utitilies finally seeing the sunlight?
By Backing solar power
in Florida, are Duke, Southern Company, TECO, and even FPL’s parent NextEra
hedging their bets, or finally realizing where the future is?

Duke Energy Florida told CNBC that it “is a strong supporter of
solar energy and we are committed to helping to grow solar in
Florida.” Last month it announced an additional 500 megawatts of
solar facilities by 2024, among other solar projects.

Meanwhile in May Duke Energy of Charlotte, North Carolina
bought 7.5% of Sabal Trail, along with Spectra Energy of Houston
and NextEra Energy of Juno Beach, Florida.

Today, in directly harnessing the power of the Sun, we’re taking the
energy that God gave us, the most renewable energy that we will ever
see, and using it to replace our dwindling supplies of fossil fuels.

Caught on-camera:
ALEC’s off-duty sheriff’s deputies getting TV reporters thrown out of their own hotel
for “taking pictures in the hotel”, after ALEC’s marketing droid denied any
lobbying going on, nevermind the lobbyist and
legislator in a bar spelling out how it works:
ALEC gives “scholarships” to legislators who then meet in closed rooms
with corporate reps (including all the companies involved in the Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline) who have equal votes
on draft bills for legislators to get passed as law in many states.
Bills promoting fracking, pipelines, LNG export, and against solar power,
renewable portfolio standards, not to mention for private prisons
and privatized education and against municipal broadband and country-of-origin labelling, plus many other
corporate give-aways subsidized by the taxpayers and the environment.
It’s time for the IRS to revoke ALEC’s 501(c)(3) status.
And for the Georgia legislature to apply the state’s sunshine laws to itself.

A fire and shut down of Indian Point 3 didn’t even make the front page
of the New York Times,
and no mention that
Spectra Energy wants to build its 42-inch fracked methane
Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) only 1,500 feet from Indian Point.
Plus an oil leak, all next to the Hudson River.
Meanwhile, Oyster Creek (NJ), Three Mile Island 1 (PA), and Farley (AL)
are all down, and numerous fire prevention deficiencies were reported for Hatch 1 and 2 (GA).
When did you last hear of a solar leak or explosion?

Changing the world is hard and takes courage, but that’s why we will win. Bill Sargent had given up on global projects and turned
to smaller local problems where it seemed there was a greater change of making a real difference.
He wrote for Harvard Heat Week 27 April 2015,
Heat Week: Teaching An Old Dog New Tricks,

But then I met Divest Harvard. Here was a group of bright, eager,
sleep-deprived young undergraduates and grad students — free
of such skepticism and willing to take on both Big Oil and the
richest University in the world in one fell swoop.

He listed a number of ways Divest Harvard is winning because
they chose the biggest targets under adverse conditions. For example: Continue reading →